Liver enzymes are proteins in your liver that speed up chemical reactions. If your liver is damaged, blood tests will show abnormally high levels of these enzymes circulating in your bloodstream.

Comprehensive metabolic profile testing (panels) is widely used to screen individuals who present for routine evaluation, as well as those referred for elevated liver enzyme values. The standard ...

Routine blood tests are increasingly detecting elevated liver enzymes, which may signal liver stress or damage. While mild ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “In this study, we found that the incidence of abnormal liver enzymes is very low in this healthy transgender ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 77-year-old woman. I am 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weigh 107 pounds. I take no medication. When I went to the doctor last week, he found that my alkaline phosphatase was 176, my ...

A 42-year-old man presents with low-grade fever, anorexia, dark urine, light-colored stools, and right upper quadrant aching discomfort of 2 weeks' duration. He indicates that he has consumed a pint ...

Geographic difference in safety and efficacy of systemic chemotherapy for advanced gastric or gastroesophageal carcinoma: A meta-regression approach. Background: Anthracycline chemotherapy has been ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Elafibranor demonstrated significant biochemical response in advanced-stage disease patients with primary ...

Rational testing: In the second of our series on how to rationalise testing in primary care, clinical scientist (biochemistry) Kade Flowers explains a logical approach to investigating a case of an ...